The Challenge is part of Make the Future London, a four-day festival of ideas and innovation coming to Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Free of charge on June 30 or July Watch teams compete in the world famous Shell Eco- marathon student mileage competition More than 200 teams from all over Europe to design and build the most fuel-efficient vehicles The winners are the teams that go the furthest on the equivalent of a single litre of fuel. The current record is 3,771km – that’s the same distance as London to Rome and back again! Shell: Bright Ideas

75 % of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050 – that’s the equivalent of building a new city for 1.4 million people every week. What do cities need? –Water, energy and food. As cities’ populations swell, pressure on these vital resources will become even greater. Imagine it’s 2050.

11 – 14 years old Teams of up to 5 Work through the Bright Ideas Student Workbook Teacher submit Bright Ideas Report (pages of the Student Workbook) and Teacher Form (page 21 of this Toolkit) to In addition, teams can submit any of the following supporting materials: –A film (3 minutes max); –Computer generated visuals, photographs, –technical drawings etc.; and/or –A physical prototype Regional prizes: –£1,500 for 11 regional school winners to super-size STEM teaching –Student prizes and funded trips to Make the Future London National prizes –National awards for schools – 1st place £3,500, 2nd place £2,500 and 3 rd place £1,500 What’s the challenge?

Imagine you’re in the future; it’s You’re living in a busy, highly populated city. People are looking for different ways to travel around the city and you’ve been challenged to design and build a vehicle that has an alternative energy source. Let your mind race and work as a team to make a car with a balloon powered ‘engine’. Our challenge…

You have 25 minutes to design and build your vehicle You will then submit your car for testing on a flat ‘test track’ Vehicles should be designed to travel as far as possible (and at least over 10cm) in a straight line Your vehicle should be robust enough to not fall apart during the test period Our challenge… Cardboard kitchen roll tube Plastic bottle/juice carton Disposable cup Straws/wooden skewers/ chopsticks Bottle tops/CD-ROMs/ cardboard/corks Adhesive tack Sticky tape Scissors Paper, pens and pencils And of course a balloon (and a spare!)

Materials and Method Consider the brief and review the design instructions. Work as a team to discuss what it is you’re being asked to do. Think about the science behind the problem and how this could inform your design! Look at the materials available and talk about how you could use these. Start to sketch a design for your vehicle Refine your solution by continually adapting and improving your design. Check you’re leaving yourselves enough time to complete the task.. When all team members are happy with the car design, start to build it. Don’t be afraid to innovate! Place your vehicle on the test-track starting line. Record the distance your car travelled and make notes about any of the other teams’ designs that worked well. What might you do differently next time?

Physics: Think of forces as pushes or pulls, arising from the interaction between two objects Use force arrows in diagrams to demonstrate forces in one dimension, and balanced and unbalanced forces Apply Newton’s Third Law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction D&T: Identify and solve design problems Develop and communicate design ideas Physics and D&T

Your Bright Ideas Report

Could people make their own low tech solar panels, water heaters or wind turbines using everyday or affordable materials? An app to help people change their behaviours to save energy? What’s an aquaponics system work and could students design one that reduces energy use in food production? Could buildings be designed to be more efficient? Could buildings ‘nudge’ people to make choices that save energy? (sensors, switches) Inspiration

How could biomass be used to create clean burning fuels to power a city? How could bio-technology be used to curb pollution in a future city? Could a pavement generate energy when people walk on it? Can we use human energy to power devices? How could travel be made more efficient? Can we make fuel burn more cleanly? How do hydrogen power cells work? Inspiration